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THE appointment of Dr. Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod as Disney professor of archeology in the University of Cambridge in succession to Prof. E. H. Minns, who will retire on October 1 next, will be welcomed by all archaeologists as no more than the due recognition of a remarkable career of archaeological research and discovery. It is also the first appointment of a woman to a professorial chair at Cambridge. Miss Garrod, who is the daughter of the late Sir Archibald Garrod, Regius professor of medicine in the University of Oxford, was born in May 1892, and she is now director of studies in archaeology and anthropology (Section A) of Newnham College. In her prehistoric studies, Miss Garrod has been a faithful disciple of the Abbé Breuil, but her discipleship has in no way cramped her in the development of a strong and independent line of thought in archaeological theory, of which the germ is to be seen in her first important publication “The Upper Palaeolic Age in Britain”(1926), and came to full fruition in her remarkable analysis of palaeolithic culture in a reorientation, which formed the subject of her striking presidential address to the Prehistoric Society in 1937. To a wider public Miss Garrod is known as the director of a succession of successful archaeological excavations at Gibraltar (1925-26), in Southern Kurdistan (1928), in the caves of Mount Carmel, Palestine (1929-34), and Bulgaria (1938), which have produced among other results the discovery at Gibraltar of a second Neanderthal skull, and in Palestine have traced early man through successive phases of prehistoric culture back to Acheulean times, as well as added a new culture and race to the peoples of that region at the close of the palaeolithic period. Miss Garrod's success as an excavator is equalled by the skill and lucidity with which she has described her discoveries. In 1927 she was a member of the International Commission which reported adversely on the Glozel antiquities; and in 1936 she occupied the presidential chair of theAnthropological Section of the British Association.
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Dr. D. A. E. Garrod. Nature 143, 813 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143813b0
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